TeraGrid Getting Started Guide

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Welcome!

Are you a new user starting to run jobs on TeraGrid? Are you interested in using the TeraGrid for your research? There are many ways to get information about TeraGrid:

• The main website, including the User Support section
• The TeraGrid Knowledge Base, for quick articles about specific questions
• TeraGrid User News, for announcements about training, system outages, new resources coming on line, and more
• The User Portal, for live information such as job status and allocation usage
• Various monitoring systems, such as Inca, to tell you what's up and what's not

This Getting Started Guide was created to point you to information according to what you are trying to do on the TeraGrid. Customize your Guide by selecting your situation from the list below:

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What is TeraGrid?

From the About section:

"TeraGrid is an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eight partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. Deployment of TeraGrid was completed in September 2004, bringing over 40 teraflops of computing power and nearly 2 petabytes of rotating storage, and specialized data analysis and visualization resources into production, interconnected at 10-30 gigabits/second via a dedicated national network."

What this means for researchers is that a grid of connected resources and services has been made possible through NSF funding and the expertise and hardware at supercomputer centers across the United States that is available through acentralized allocation system.

More Details:
View a map of TeraGrid resources

How can TeraGrid help further my research?

TeraGrid offers a variety of resources and tools to help further scientific research:

• Compute resources combine large groups of processors for running intensive applications;
• Visualization resources can be used to model the results of complex data sets;
• Data resources offer large storage capacities and the capability to share data over high speed networks
• Software applications include grid software (used for running jobs or transferring data across multiple locations) available from all sites and specialized applications available from one or more sites;
• User support encompasses phone and email communication as well as the Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (ASTA) program, which pairs projects with TeraGrid consultants who provide one-on-one support.

More Details:
Table of all TeraGrid resources